The document discusses whether "The Roaring Twenties" accurately describes life in the United States during the 1920s. It analyzes aspects of entertainment, racism by the Ku Klux Klan, and Prohibition and organized crime. New forms of entertainment like flappers, jazz music, and movies emerged. The KKK targeted non-white groups and Prohibition led to a boom in speakeasies, bootlegging, and gangsters like Al Capone who profited from illegal alcohol.

1. The ‘Roaring Twenties’ Is this a good description of the USA in the 1920’s?

3. Development of Entertainment The 1920’s was a period that saw new forms of entertainment that affected people in different ways. Women began to develop a sense of identity as new fashions (wearing higher dresses, make-up, smoking, ‘bobbed’ hair cuts). Such women who changed their hair and wore fashionable clothes became known as ‘FLAPPERS’. They also began to gain skilled jobs that had been previously given to men. JAZZ music became important as people went to dance halls to listen to this new style of music. The advent of silent movies at the cinema also had an impact on people’s lives as ‘movie stars’ affected fashions. These new entertainments, along with the new popularity of RADIO , allowed people to see entertainment as a right and became popular to such an extent that the 1920’s became known as the ‘ ROARING TWENTIES ’.

5. Prohibition – Banning the sale of Alcohol in the USA Why Prohibition? “ 3000 infants smothered to death by drunken parents” (As said by the Anti Saloon League) It “destroyed” families Alcohol was linked to other ‘evils’: Madness, poverty, crime etc Big Brewies were owned by Germans. People were seen to be ‘traitors’ by drinking beer.

6. Groups like the ‘Anti Saloon League’ became very powerful groups in the USA. They advertised alcohol as the evil that was causing many of society’s problems. Such cartoons show how they tried to persuade people to support prohibition. However, the effects of Prohibition caused even more problems. “Daddy’s in there ……….And our shoes and stockings and clothes and food are in there too and they’ll never come out.”

10. The ‘Roaring Twenties’ Is this a good description of the USA in the 1920’s?